"ZIKAlliance is a multidisciplinary project with a global ""One Health"" approach, built: on a multi-centric network of clinical cohorts in the Caribbean, Central & South America; research sites in countries where the virus has been or is currently circulating (Africa, Asia...

The 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership interlinks 3 priorities which can leverage a faster socio-economic development in Africa. Africa/Europe have recognised that the development of STI & the spreading of ICT to all components of a society are key. P8 new Action Plan lists ...

With a global incidence increasing at 2% and two million deaths each year, tuberculosis (TB) demands the highest priority among communicable diseases linked to poverty. In developing countries, the vast majority of the TB cases affect the young adult population, increasing its...

These last years, several vector-borne, parasitic or zoonotic diseases have (re)-emerged and spread in the European territory with major health, ecological, socio-economical and political consequences. Most of these outbreaks are linked to global and local changes resulting of...

The PASARELAS project will accompany existing INCODEV research projects on coastal and marine fisheries resources with the aim of maximising research impact through the development of stakeholder dialogue "interfaces" between science and society. The consortium will ally multi...

Genetic diversity of malaria parasites is a major obstacle to develop rational control strategies against this poverty related disease. Increase of health threatening drug resistance must be monitored and prevented to protect introduced drugs. We propose to evaluate newly deve...

Despite the millions of deaths from tuberculosis each year and the threat of increased drug resistance, tuberculosis vaccine development has been hugely under-resourced. We set out here to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of new subunit Constructs in Africa, a continent ...

* Construct mathematical models of the immunological and clinical epidemiology of Plasmodium falciparum (P.f.) malaria, and test the model predictions against observations collected independently of this project.
* Use the models for helping to:
a) calculate the expected impa...

The general objective is to deploy an African network for research and analysis of human reproduction and maternal health in six West African countries.
The specific objectives are to:
* Assess the magnitude of abortion complications in several maternities of the following s...